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Moving for marriage : inequalities, intimacy, and women's lives in rural North India / Shruti Chaudhry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaudhry, Shruti, 1982- author.
- Series:
- Genders in the global south.
- Genders in the global south
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marriage--India--Uttar Pradesh--Case studies.
- Marriage.
- Uttar Pradesh (India)--Rural conditions--Case studies.
- Uttar Pradesh (India).
- Uttar Pradesh (India)--Regional disparities--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Comparative, ethnographic study of women who migrate for marriage in rural north India.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- The Trouble with Marriage Is Marriage
- Moving for Marriage
- Intimacy
- Relationality
- A Return to the Rural
- The Setting: Barampur
- What Led Me to Barampur
- The Research and Methods
- Outline of the Book
- Part 1: Contextualizing Marriage in Rural North India
- 1 Making a Regional Marriage
- The "Rules" of Marriage
- The Process of Arrangement: The Matchmaker or Bīcholīā
- "Choice" in Marital Decisions
- Marriage Prestations: Dowry
- Dowryless Marriages
- Conclusion
- 2 A Compulsory Marriage? Contextualizing Cross-Regional Marriage and Bachelorhood
- Barampur, Bride-Receiving Region
- A Shortage of Marriageable Women? Sex Ratios, Son Preference, and "Daughter Aversion"
- Unable to Marry: The Unemployed Jat Man
- Jat Responses to the Difficulties Faced: Bachelorhood or Cross-Regional Marriage?
- At the Bottom of the Eligibility Hierarchy: The Chamar Brick-Kiln Worker
- Chamar Responses to the Difficulties Faced: Lower Forms of Marriage?
- Unable to Marry Nirol: The Kumhar (Casual) Laborer
- Kumhar Responses to the Difficulties Faced: Badlā or Cross-regional Marriage?
- Lohar and Teli: Only a Second Marriage is Difficult
- Bachelor Men, Marginalized Masculinities
- Bride-Sending Regions
- Economic Constraints
- "Spatial Hypergamy"
- Family Circumstances
- "Individual Attributes"
- Deception
- 3 Making a Cross-Regional Marriage
- Who Arranges? The "Go-Between" or Bīchwālā
- A Marriage without Dowry: Bride-Price, Bride-Buying, or Trafficking?
- What Makes a Marriage a Marriage? Ritual and the "Legitimate" Marriage
- Part 2: Post-Marital Lived Experiences
- 4 Life in the Sasurāl
- From Pīhar to Sasurāl: The Transition
- Women's Work
- Incorporation, Home and the Ambiguity of Belonging.
- Conclusion
- 5 Husbands
- Sex
- Wife-beating and Verbal Abuse
- Reproductive "Choice"
- Sāth Denā: The Meanings of Marriage and Support
- 6 Children and Other Women
- Motherhood and Mothering
- Adult Children
- Women, Friendship, and the Life-Course
- Women of the Household
- Women Outside
- 7 Natal Kin
- Visiting the Pīhar
- Gift-Giving
- Accessing Natal Kin Support
- Seeking Refuge: Leaving Temporarily
- Leaving Permanently
- Widowhood
- Other Forms of Support
- Inequalities
- Marriage Migration
- Intimacy and Relationality
- Social Change
- Appendix 1 Castes in Barampur
- Appendix 2 Village Survey Questionnaire
- Appendix 3 Details of Cross-Regional Bride and Regional Bride Informants
- Appendix 4 Details of Informants for Structured Interviews
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438485591
- 143848559X
- OCLC:
- 1259295775
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